Iran

Iran’s Holocaust denial is part of a malevolent strategy

Iran’s Holocaust denial is part of a malevolent strategy Reuel Marc Gerecht and Ray Takeyh, The Washington Post May 27 2016 Image: Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif last month in New York. (Frank Franklin II/Associated Press) The Islamic Republic of Iran held another Holocaust cartoon festival this month, inviting the usual despicable cast of characters. Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif assured the New Yorker that although

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The ‘Most Persecuted Group in Iran’

The ‘Most Persecuted Group in Iran’ Elliott Abrams, The Washington Post 13 May 2016 Image: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. (Ebrahim Noroozi/Associated Press) Hope springs eternal when it comes to human rights in Iran. The election in 2013 of President Hassan Rouhani, who replaced Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was supposed to bring improvement. The purported victory of moderates in the recent legislative and Islamic clerics’Assembly of Experts elections

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She Won a Seat in Iran’s Parliament, but Hard-Liners Had Other Plans

She Won a Seat in Iran’s Parliament, but Hard-Liners Had Other Plans Thomas Erdbrink, The New York Times  11 May 2016 Image: Minoo Khaleghi, a reformist politician, had won a seat in the Iranian Parliament in February.CreditIran Pooyesh   TEHRAN — Minoo Khaleghi easily won a seat in the Iranian Parliament in February, part of a wave of independents and reformists who now have the numbers to wrest authority from the hard-liners. On Wednesday,

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Iran’s ‘moderates’ and the Holocaust

Iran’s ‘Moderates’ and the Holocaust Editorial Board, The Washington Post 9 May 2016 image: Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif speaks to the media on April 22 in New York. (Frank Franklin II/Associated Press) AT THE heart of the Obama administration’s diplomatic engagement with Iran is the notion that the regime is divided among hard-liners who foment its terrorism and regional aggression and more moderate forces who are open

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Iran: Secretary Kerry is Set to Meet Foreign Minister on Nuclear Deal

  Kerry to meet Iran foreign minister Tuesday on nuclear deal: official Reporting by Lesley Wroughton; Editing by Jeffrey Benkoe 18 April 2016   Image: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry delivers remarks on trade at an event with the Pacific Council on International Policy in Los Angeles, April 12, 2016. REUTERS/JONATHAN ERNST Secretary of State John Kerry will meet with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in New York on Tuesday

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Amnesty International: Executions Highest in 25 Years

Executions Highest in 25 Years, Amnesty International Says Rick Gladstone, The New York Times 06 April 2016 Image: Officials in Iran preparing a noose for an execution in 2014. Amnesty International said in its annual report that almost 90 percent of the executions that it recorded last year were carried out in Iran, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. CreditArash Khamooshi/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Despite a growing repudiation of the death

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Middle East: Religion and Responsible American Engagement

                                  Religion and Responsible American Engagement of the Middle East The Review of Faith & International Affairs By Chris Seiple    Image: The political cartoons included in this are selected as tools to teach about public policy issues. Their inclusion does not in any way constitute an endorsement by Teachers College, Columbia University, of their point of view. [International

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Washington Post Accuses Obama Administration of ‘Fecklessness’ for Sweeping Iranian Provocations ‘Under the Rug’

Washington Post Accuses Obama Administration of ‘Fecklessness’ for Sweeping Iranian Provocations ‘Under the Rug’ By Ruthie Blum, Algemeiner   21 December 2015  Iran nuclear deal violationsJailed Washington Post correspondent Jason RezaianThe Washington Post The Obama administration is letting Iran get away with provoking the United States and its allies with impunity following July’s nuclear deal between the country and world powers,

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Iran: Will Relaxation of Sanctions on Iran Intensify its Incitement to Genocide? An Evidence – Based Analysis

Will Relaxation of Sanctions on Iran Intensify its Incitement to Genocide? An Evidence - Based Analysis   Link: Will relaxation of Iran sanctions increase its incitement to genocide against Israel hatespeech

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Iran: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s Hate Speech and Threats from 2012-2015

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's Hate Speech and Threats from 2012-2015   Link: Iran Hatespeech Timeline 2012 - 2015

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